McGill University, the University of Ottawa and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute have launched ARCHIMEDES, a national platform that aims to support Canada’s secure health data access and analysis. ARCHIMEDES—Advanced Research Collaboration for Health Integration, Medical Exploration, and Data Synthesis—offers a centralized, ethically guided computational environment for Canadian health research. It will break down silos in Canadian health research, streamline data sharing and analysis, and offer a robust data governance framework. “This will be a nationwide resource,” said ARCHIMEDES Co-chair and UOttawa Professor Jodi Edwards. “Many institutions are awaiting our launch so they can contribute to the database. We anticipate widespread use at the national and even international level.”
